(June 5, 2016 at 4:47 pm)madog Wrote: Personally I presently accept that the universe didn't exist until the big bang ...
The Big Bang was just our known universe. I was speaking of everything, everywhere, multiverses or not. The 'energy' soup that 'predates' the BB. Including whatever it is that our universe is expanding into (if anything).
It just is. No before, no after, just a stagnant pool of endless possibilities.
You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy